Daiko's YouTube Widget WordPress Plugin
Adds a sidebar widget to display random YouTube videos of your own choice. Uses a ThickBox pop-up player or VideoPlayer widget to play the videos.
Adds a sidebar widget to display a defined number of random YouTube videos of your own choice. Make your own videolist in the widget-control-panel. Syntax: {YouTubeID}@{Title}(Line Brake) without the brackets. Do not add a (Line Brake) after the last video in the list.
The widget also supports RSS-feeds from tag(s) and user(s). NEW in version 1.1.
The widget includes a plugin to activate ThickBox 3.1 developed by Cody Lindley to display videos as a pop-up and uses swfObjects 1.5 by Geoff Stearns. If you by any chance don't want to use the ThickBox player activate the included Daiko's VideoPlayer Widget. The two player options can be mixed. If both are active on a page, Daiko's VideoPlayer Widget will override the ThickBox pop-up player.
There is good support for Conditional Tags, meaning that you can specify where to show the widget. NEW in version 1.2.4 is sup
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Usage of Daiko's YouTube Widget over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 73 to 45 — down 28 (-38.4%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 45 | -7 |
| June 2024 | 52 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 52 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 52 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 52 | -6 |
| February 2024 | 58 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 59 | -6 |
| December 2023 | 65 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 66 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 66 | -2 |
| September 2023 | 68 | -5 |
| August 2023 | 73 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 73 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 73 | — |
Themes used with Daiko's YouTube Widget
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Newshour |
| 2 | Twentyeleven |
| 3 | Thestation |
| 4 | Wp-genius-prem-new |
| 5 | Raindrops |
| 6 | Itheme2 |
| 7 | Qubel |
| 8 | News-theme |
| 9 | Twentyseventeen |
| 10 | Modicus-remix |
| 11 | Branfordmagazine |
| 12 | Oncc |
| 13 | Allegro-theme |
| 14 | Oxeyegames |
| 15 | Steampunk |
| 16 | Primepress |
| 17 | Idc |
| 18 | Veleria |
| 19 | Chocolat |
| 20 | Apprise |
Sites running Daiko's YouTube Widget
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